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The Washington metropolitan area, also referred to as the D.C. area, Greater Washington, the National Capital Region, or locally as the DMV (short for District of Columbia, Maryland, and Virginia), is the metropolitan area comprising Washington, D.C., the federal capital of the United States, and its surroundings.
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The Washington metropolitan area, which includes the district and surrounding suburbs, is the sixth-largest metropolitan area in the U.S., with an estimated six million residents as of 2016. [143] When the Washington area is included with Baltimore and its suburbs, it forms the vast Washington–Baltimore combined statistical area.
Arlington (Major airport: Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport, Recognized as a "central city" by the U.S. Census Bureau) Suburbs with 10,000 to 100,000 inhabitants [ edit ]
The Washington–Baltimore combined metropolitan statistical area is a statistical area, including the overlapping metropolitan areas of Washington, D.C. and Baltimore. The region includes Central Maryland , Northern Virginia , three counties in the Eastern Panhandle of West Virginia , and one county in south-central Pennsylvania .
Construction began in 1969, and in 1976 the first section of the Metro system opened along the Red Line between the Farragut North and Rhode Island Avenue stations in Washington, D.C. Throughout the 1970s and 1980s, more stations were opened in the city and the suburban communities of Arlington County, the City of Alexandria, and Fairfax County ...
Neighborhoods in Washington, D.C., the capital of the United States, are distinguished by their history, culture, architecture, demographics, and geography. The names of 131 neighborhoods are unofficially defined by the D.C. Office of Planning. [ 1 ]
McLean (/ m ə ˈ k l eɪ n / mə-KLAYN) [5] is an unincorporated community and census-designated place in Fairfax County, Virginia, United States. The population of the community was 50,773 at the 2020 census. [1] It is located between the Potomac River and Vienna within the Washington metropolitan area.